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I'll add another update to the queue to point people to the article and the archive! It's really neat stuff, so cool that you did so much work to preserve it.

Inside Mac Games was a unique sort of magazine from the mid-1990s. It was specific to the small, affluent community of Macintosh gamers and instead of being printed it came on a CD-ROM! The articles were presented through an interactive executable and they could link to slide shows, trailers...

You've probably heard talk of some excitement going on in Portland, Oregon and it's all true: Wing Commander I and II composer George "The Fatman" Sanger will be appearing at next weekend's Portland Retro Gaming Expo! The convention runs October 17 to 19 at the Oregon Convention Center. We...

AD has found another interesting historical radio broadcast. This one aired on KRFC 88.9 FM on December 30, 2018. It's an hour long interview with Jen Parker. Ms. Parker got her start in video game magazines and went on to become a brand manager for Origin Systems in Europe... and later headed...

The Wing Commander movie club is back from old Detroit and there's no way around it: RoboCop 3 is a bad movie. Like the sequels to Starship Troopers and Showgirls, this is another case of an artful Verhoeven movie being cut down into only its most literal parts. Which is fine: RoboCop said...

Darn! Well, like they say: nothing Ventured, nothing gained.

You will be forgiven if you've never heard of the Keyboard And Terminal Technology (KATT) Game Master Matt. It was a very obscure mid-90s game controller keyboard. Its gimmick was that it was pre-programmed to support specific games and you could buy different layout "matts" (sic) that would...

Iron Sky is in the spreadsheet for a Saturday morning marathon! Which are coming back! October 18th is going to be the next one and we're going to do them roughly monthly through at least January.

Have you ever wondered why the original Wing Commander's cheat code is referred to as the "finger of death"? Sure, you use your fingers to activate it… but that's also how pretty much every cheat code that exists works. There's a little bit more to the story than you would expect: the term...

Here's a preview of Wing Commander SNES that we found on eBay, of all places! We snagged it from one of those 'cut up magazines and sell them as posters' accounts and as of this moment we don't know where it was from. The listing claimed it dates to 1992, which makes sense, but we haven't found...

I think every member of the Wing Commander movie club can agree that 1492: Conquest of Paradise was not the most thrilling film in the world. It's not that it wasn't well made but it just… sort of sat there with lavish production values that never seemed to quite live up to the story it was...

I noticed a similar callout in Prophecy last night - when a navpoint is clear, Maestro has "all clear, nap time!" as a comm.

The Wing Commander movie club is home from exploring the new world with sexy Columbus. I wouldn't say anyone loved 1492: Conquest of Paradise but it was certainly a movie you could think about. This week's movie is... not that. We'll be watching RoboCop 3 (1991), arguably the third or fourth...

This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the...

We had a great time following a universal classic with its weird but incredibly special legacy sequel. 2010: The Year We Make Contact is a fascinating movie and I hope everyone enjoyed listening to me go on about it for two hours. I could probably spend that much time just opining on the unusual...

Are you lucky enough to live in or near Sweden? Then you'll want to mark your calendars: the next edition of the gamed SCORE game music concert is coming to the De Geerhallen concert hall in Norrköping on November 8… and it will include music from Wing Commander! SCORE is an ongoing concert...

Cybot has a friend to introduce us to: Uncle Bilbop. Uncle Bilbop has a large selection of Privateer-styled ship upgrades that are available as OBJ files for you to use in your own work! Cargo Pods DAZ GOF Cabin Passager 01 DAZ PRIVATEER Armor Type 00 DAZ...

This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the...

I believe that's normal aboard ships, the helmsman stands during their watch to stay as alert as possible.

I don't know Saga so well but there is a Wing Commander Academy, The Last One Left, where Maniac seems to be sleeping through autopilot (though it's presenting him as being in the wrong for it). The Broadsword is patterned after World War II strategic bombers which did indeed fly extremely...